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- EIN 75-2363639
- admin@kitchendogtheater.org
- (214) 953-2258
- 4774 Algiers St Dallas TX 75207-5502 USA
- www.kitchendogtheater.org
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Causes: Arts & Culture, Arts Education, Performing Arts, Theater
Mission: It is the mission of kitchen dog theater to provide a place where questions of justice, morality and human freedom can be explored. We choose plays that challenge our moral and social consciences, invite our audiences to be provoked, challenged, and amazed. We believe that the theater is a site of individual discovery as well as a force against conventional views of the self and experience. It is not a provider of answers, but an invitation to question. Since theater of this kind is not bound by any tradition, kitchen dog theater is committed to exploring these questions whether they are found in the classics, contemporary works, or new plays.
Programs: The 2016-2017 season was an artistic and critical success, receiving eight dfw theatre critics forum awards and earning kdt a best stray theater award from d magazine. The season featured one area premiere, two regional premieres, and two world premieres, as well as six staged readings showcasing some of the nations most exciting emerging and established playwrights and six staged readings by some of dallas most promising student writers. Tearrance arvelle chisholms brer cotton headlined the 19th annual new works festival and was kdts 10th nnpn rolling world premiere, partnering with cleveland public theatre and lower depth theatre ensemble (los angeles). Brer cotton tackles complicated issues of racism and racial identity through the lens of three generations' wildly different attitudes and responses and was recently named a semi-finalist for the relentless award the largest annual cash prize awarded to a playwright in recognition of a new play. Kdt also commissioned a new work, lisa, my friend, from rising star abe koogler, which was featured in our season opener, a stain upon the silence: becketts bequest, an evening of rarely performed short plays celebrating the lasting influence of samuel beckett through four generations of playwrights. In 2016, kdt and junior players forged a new partnership, called d-pac (dallas playwriting arts collective), with the dallas independent school district. By leveraging organizational assets, d-pac enabled pup fest classes to expand its reach, specifically increasing programming in more economically challenged schools.